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Youth Against Poverty is a organization focused on spreading awareness of child poverty. We hope that the younger generation will understand the need of eradicating child poverty globally and do their part in the fight to end it.Many teens have preconceived thoughts of people in poverty and how charities use their money for them - "They are all drug addicts", "They had a choice", "The money doesn't go to them, "Who cares, it's not me". Our goal is to change those thoughts and ideas by educating them about what is really happening. They will understand exactly how children in poverty are living and what they - as young people can do about it.
"Lend your voice to make a difference" is the motto of our organization. We believe young people who are motivated will use their energies and resources to spread the word around. Each of our voices can be a powerful and useful weapon against child poverty. They will be able to challenge their peer group and others by speaking to them about child poverty and help them to join in the fight against it. Young people can also get involved with different activities to help in the fight.
www.youthagainstpoverty.org
www.groups.myspace.com/youthagainstpoverty
Youth Against Poverty is not based on religion or faith.
Quick Facts
600 million children live in absolute poverty.
30,000 children die each day due to poverty
Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion. Number in poverty: 1 billion (every second child)
400 million children, one in five, have no access to safe water. Meanwhile, unsafe water and sanitation cause about 4,000 child deaths per day.
Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases - that's over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds.
Learn more and how you can help at
www.youthagainstpoverty.org www.groups.myspace.com/youthagainstpoverty
10 more Stunning Facts on Poverty
1 Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
2 The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world's countries) is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people combined.
3 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year.
4 Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion Number in poverty: 1 billion (every second child)
5 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy)
6 Some 800 million people around the globe suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
7 Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation and the large majority are children under the age of 5.
8 5 million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases.
9 One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes. That's 270 million people since 1990, the majority women and children, roughly equal to the population of the US.
10 Over 2.5 million people have been displaced, many to neighboring Chad, and 3.5 million are reported to be starving in Darfur.
